Video: Making Photoshop your default image editor on a PC

Now, the purpose of this movie is to show you how to make Photoshop your default image editor. So you can double-click on an image file at the desktop level and have it open by default inside Photoshop. Now this specific movie is designed for you Windows users. I am working on a PC right now, if you are a Macintosh user, skip to the next movie instead, where I show you how to do the exact same thing on a Mac. Now I am looking at the contents of the 00_setup folder found inside the exercise_files folder that's available to those of you who are premium members or have access to the DVD, and you can see we have got three files all of which seem to be called welcome.

In the third installment of the Photoshop CS5 Extended One-on-One series, author Deke McClelland shows how to build, light, and render realistic 3D scenes in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Providing a systematic approach to scene building, the course explains how to produce reflections and refractions, balance the interplay of light and shadow, and frame scenes with 3D cameras.

Making Photoshop your default image editor on a PC

Now, the purpose of this movie is to show you how to make Photoshop yourdefault image editor.So you can double-click on an image file at the desktop level and have it openby default inside Photoshop.Now this specific movie is designed for you Windows users.I am working on a PC right now, if you are a Macintosh user, skip to the nextmovie instead, where I show you how to do the exact same thing on a Mac.Now I am looking at the contents of the 00_setup folder found inside theexercise_files folder that's available to those of you who are premium membersor have access to the DVD, and you can see we have got three files all of whichseem to be called welcome.

Well, they actually have different extensions.To see those extensions, you have to go over to the Organize menu here, underWindows 7 and choose Folder and search options.If you're using an older version of Windows, then, just ahead and tap theAlt key and that will force the display of this little menu here, inside of the folder.Click on tools and then choose Folder options then, inside, the Folder Optionsdialog box click on the View tab and then, drop down here to the check box, hideextensions for known file types and turn it off, so that you can see theextensions and now click the OK button and you will see the extensions afterevery one of these file names.

Now it's time to make Photoshop our default imaging application and we have torepeat the process I am about to show you for each one of these file types, forJPEG files, TIF files and PSD files.So I am going to go with the JPEG file first.Right-click on it and then, choose Open with, now you could choose AdobePhotoshop CS5 at this point, but if you do that you'll open the JPEG imageinside of Photoshop this time and this time only.Instead what you want to do is Choose default program, then, inside theensuing dialog box hopefully, you'll see Photoshop at the top here, if so justgo and click on it.

If you don't see it then, click on this down pointing arrowhead next to OtherProgram, scroll down the list and see if you can find Photoshop.If you still can't find it, you have to click on this Browse button and locatePhotoshop on your hard drive.In my case, I can see that at the top of the list.So I'll go ahead and click on it, then make sure, this check box Always use theselected program to open this kind of file is turned on and click OK, and thatwill go ahead and automatically open the image inside of Photoshop then, I'llpress Control+Plus to zoom in on the image.All right, lets go ahead and replay that stuff for the TIF image.

I'll minimize Photoshop, right-click on Welcome.tif and you can do this, bythe way, with any JPEG image, any TIFimage, any PSD image, you don't have to use mine;choose Open with go down here, to Choose default program and then, locatePhotoshop and list, make sure, the check box is turned on click OK, same thinghappens again, you'll go ahead you'll go ahead and zoom in on the image if youwant to, to see it up close and personal.All right, so now its time to repeat that step for the PSD file, I am going togo ahead and minimize Photoshop once again, right-click on Welcome.psd chooseOpen with, Choose default program, find Adobe Photoshop CS5 inside the dialogbox, make sure, the check box is turned on and click OK.

Now this time we're going to receive a special error message inside aPhotoshop and here, it is, it's telling us that some of the text layerscontain missing fonts.So it's very likely that your system doesn't have the fonts that I used tocreate this layered PSD file.Turns out that's not a problem, just go ahead and click OK, and you'll, noticeif you zoom in on this file, that even though here in the Layers panel, we havegot three layers in all that have little warning icons next to them and that'stelling us the fonts are missing even so, all of the fonts look great on screenand that's because Photoshop is that one application out there that even ifyou're missing a font, as long as you don't edit the type everything ishunky-dory, because you're seeing a pixel equivalent of that type is well.

The final thing I want to mention is that this is a four-part series.We've got part one Fundamentals, part two Objects, part three Scenes andpart four Type Effects;I just want you to be aware of that.In the next movie, I am going to show you Macintosh people, if you're still withme for some reason how to do the exact same thing we saw here, you Windowspeople don't want to see that so, go ahead and skip to the movie after that inwhich I'll show you how to install my custom Deke keys keyboard shortcuts.

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